Basic knowledge

Actuation of CADET/ CADETTE

1. Talking to Officer and MTI
2. Speak in English
3. Stand at Attention
4. Always state the name of the person pertaining to.
5. Do not familiarize or smile.

CADET/ CADETTE Should always

1. Move on double time
2. Sidestep while passing by to any officer and MTI (Except in group)
3. Salute and great all officers especially the PAF personnel
4. Wear proper and clean uniform
5. Talk only when permitted
6. Always ask permission from the Officer or MTI when taking personal necessity.
7. Shout ATTENTION! State the rank and name of the Officer or MTI and greet in normal voice with
ma’am/sir when the officer or MTI are passing in their front.
8. Stand at Attention when talking
9. Speak in English when talking at all times
10. Answer YES or NO only when not asked to explain
11. Pay Attention to all Command/ Instructions
12. Move with their buddy/Group in cadence at all times
13. Follow all legal orders at all times
14. Follow the Chain of Command

CADET/ CADETTE Should Not

1.Familiarize with MTI’s or Officers especially PAF Personnel.
2. Talk in vernacular language towards MTI’s or Officer unless permitted to do so.
3. Move while in formation
4. Talk or smile in formation
5. Stand in one leg
6. Fall-out from formation when not instructed.
7. Violate the Honor Code
8. Reason’s out, toward MTI’s or Officer

NEW COMMAND

TAGALOG ENGLISH TAGALOG ENGLISH

UPO, NA! Take Sit Palit-Hakbang, Kad Change Step March
TAYO, NA! Stand up Handa, Rap Ready Front
Sa Aking Pag-utos At my Command Manumbalik As You Were
Humanay Fall in Tikas, Nga At Rest
PUGAY KAMAY, Na! Hand Salute Paluwag at Ease
BABA KAMAY, Na! Ready Too Tiwalag Fall out
Harap sa Likod, Rap! About Face Lumansag Dismissed
Harap sa Kanan, Rap! Right Face Masinsing Pagitan At Close Interval
Harap sa Kaliwa, Rap! Left Face Humanda Attention
Harap Hating-kaliwa, Left Half Face Kanang/Kaliwang Right/Left Oblique
Rap! Panig, Kad March
Harap Hating-Kanan, Right Half Face Liko sa Column Right/Left
Rap! Kanan/Kaliwa, Kad March
Patakda, Kad Mark Time March Pasulong, Kad Forward March
Pabalik, Kad Roar March Tunton- Dress Right/Left Dress
Kanan/Kaliwa, Na
Lihis sa kanan / Kaliwa, Incline to the Right/Left
Kad / Na March
CONVERSATION

1. (While making Statement)

Hand Salute, State the rank and name of MTI or Officer, May Cadet/Cadette, SURNAME (with my buddy,
Cdt. SURNMANE if two) (with 3 others if more than 3) (with company if more than 10) make a statement
ma’am/sir!

2. (While Marching)

When 2 Cadet/Cadette are marching together, the rightmost cadet/cadette will command Pugay Kamay, Na!
and greet)

When in a group of 3 or more, the rightmost Cadet/Cadette will Salute, and everybody will greet.

3. (While Reporting)

Hand Salute, State the rank and name of MTI or Officer, Cadet/Cadette, SURNAME rendering report of Class
2023-2024, Name of Class, Total Strength: _________, Total Present: ____________ Total Absent: _____,
All accounted for and ready for Instruction Sir/Ma’am!

Note: if the MTI’s or Officer are asking for what to do, the Cadet/Cadette should always response “as your
order sir/ma’am!”

4. (While Complying order)

Hand Salute, State the rank and name of MTI or Officer, you order to cadet/cadette, Surname to perform
(Numbers of Repetition) of (Name of Exercise) has been properly complied sir/ma’am!

5. (While Joining the Formation)

Hand Salute, State the rank and name of MTI or Officer, Cadet/Cadette, SURNAME (with my buddy, Cdt.
SURNMANE if two) (with 3 others if more than 3) (with company if more than 10) join the
Flight/Formation / Group sir/ma’am!

5. (While taking personal Necessity)

Hand Salute, State the rank and name of MTI or Officer, May Cadet/Cadette, SURNAME take personal
necessity ma’am/sir!

BASIC KNOWLEDGE that Should be Memorize by The Cadet/Cadette

1. 11 General Orders
2. Military Professionalism
3. Pledged of Loyalty
4. Honor Code
5. 3 Cardinal Principles
6. Military Secrecy
7. Military Courtesy
8. Military Discipline
9. Preamble

Note: You can start memorizing the following basic knowledge if you have a vacant time
 PREAMBLE

We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane
society, and establish a Government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the common good,
conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our posterity, the blessings of independence
and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace, do
ordain and promulgate this Constitution.

11 GENERAL ORDERS

1. To take charge of this post and all government property in view.

2. To walk my post in a military manner, keeping always on the alert, and observing everything that takes place
within sight or hearing.
3. To report all violations of orders I am instructed to enforce.
4. To repeat all calls from posts more distant from the guard house than my own.
5. To quit my post only when properly relieved.
6. To receive, obey and pass on to the sentinel who relieves me, all orders from the Commanding Officer,
officer of the day, and Non-Commission Officer, of the Guard only.
7. To talk to no one except in the line of duty.
8. To give the alarm in case of fire or disorder.
9. To call the Commanding of the Guard in any case not covered by instructions.
10. To salute all officers and all colors and standards not cased.
11. To be especially watchful at night, and, during the time for challenging, to challenge all persons on or near
my post and to allow no one to pass without proper authority.

MILITARY PROFESSIONALISM

Men who adopt the profession of arms submit of their own free will to a law of perpetual constraint of their
own accord. They reject their right to live where they choose, to say what they think, to dress as they like from
the moment they become a soldier, it needs but an order to settle them from their place to move them to that, to
separate them from their families and dislocate their normal lives.

In the world of command, they must rise, march, run, endure bad weather, go without sleep or food, be
isolated in some distant post, Work until they drop. They have ceased to be the master of their own fate. If they
drop on their tracks, if their ashes are scattered in the four winds, that is all part and parcel of their job.

MILITARY SECRECY

“WHAT YOU SEE, WHAT YOU HEAR, WHEN YOU LEAVE, JUST LEAVE IT HERE”

HONOR CODE

“WE THE CADET DO NOT LIE, CHEAT, STEAL, NOR TOLERATE AMONG US THOSE WHO DO”
DO I INTEND TO DECEIVE?
DO I INETEND TO UNDUE TAKE ADVANTAGE?
IF THE ANSWER IS NO TO BOTH QUESTIONS, THEN I WILL DO THE HONORABLE THINGS

MILITARY DISCIPLINE

IS THAT MENTAL ATTITUDE AND STATE OF TRAINING WHICH RENDERS OBEDIENCE AND PROPER
CONDUCT INSTINCTIVE IN ALL CONDITIONS respect for and loyalty to properly constituted authority
smartness of appearance and action

MILITARY COURTESY

IS THE EXTENSION OR MANIFESTATION OF CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS.

RECOGNITION OF THE RESPONSIBILITY AND AUTHORITY OF A SENIOR’S POSITION THAT EXTENDS TO
A JUNIOR AS THE ESSENTIAL PART THAT THE LATTER PLAYS AS A MEMBER OF THE MILITARY TEAM.
3 CARDINALS

1. OBEY FIRST BEFORE YOU COMPLAIN

2. OBSERVE MILITARY DISCIPLINE
3. DO NOT SQUEAL

PLEDGE OF LOYALTY

If you work a man in heaven's name, work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he
represents. Remember that an ounce of loyalty is worth than a pound of cleverness. If you must growl,
condemn, and eternally find fault, why not resign your position? And when you are outside, damn of your
heart’s content, but as long as you are part of this institution, do not condemn it. If you do so, the first high
wind that comes along will blow you away. And probably, you'll never know why.